The books are garbage too!
a thread about a man who lusts over his own daughter is probably the most appropriate place for GoT talk rn.
So glad I managed to avoid GoT, and Walking Dead.
Fuck Israel
mid-air collisions with blacked-out military aircraft in the nation's capital.
they really are doing the fascist-authoritarian thing with aplomb this time around, aren't they?
we actually noticed the sudden moratorium on 'woke DEI government funding' in the scientific publishing world this last week. lots of research groups basically frozen and putting down tools, figuratively speaking. mind you, i edit and manage astrophysics. there aren't a lot of 'DEI hires' or 'leftist cells' being given telescope viewing time in the field of astronomy. this government seems determined to tear down the system and do as much damage as possible, it seems, through some sort of shock doctrine.
but for whose benefit?
https://www.nature.com/nature-index/res … all/global
china has already overtaken the USA in the top echelons of research publishing. freezing all federal grants seems like a great sop to the CCP.
they really are doing the fascist-authoritarian thing with aplomb this time around, aren't they?
we actually noticed the sudden moratorium on 'woke DEI government funding' in the scientific publishing world this last week. lots of research groups basically frozen and putting down tools, figuratively speaking. mind you, i edit and manage astrophysics. there aren't a lot of 'DEI hires' or 'leftist cells' being given telescope viewing time in the field of astronomy. this government seems determined to tear down the system and do as much damage as possible, it seems, through some sort of shock doctrine.
but for whose benefit?
https://www.nature.com/nature-index/res … all/global
china has already overtaken the USA in the top echelons of research publishing. freezing all federal grants seems like a great sop to the CCP.
So far it seems to be normal practice for military helicopters to fly up and down the river and civilian passenger aircraft to fly across the river.
Amazing this hasn't happened before TBH.
Amazing this hasn't happened before TBH.
Fuck Israel
hasn’t it also been normal practice since like the 1970s to have basic proximity alert systems? this blackhawk was flying with everything turned off, apparently. is there really a pressing security need for that when in extremely busy airspace in your own capital?Dilbert_X wrote:
So far it seems to be normal practice for military helicopters to fly up and down the river and civilian passenger aircraft to fly across the river.
Amazing this hasn't happened before TBH.
I think this is going to be one of those "But this is how we've always done it and its been perfectly fine - up to today...." things
Fuck Israel
- SuperJail Warden
- Gone Forever
- +644|3998
I read an article a few months back about how air traffic control is overwhelmed. Staffing is hard and close calls are common. The article quoted an official who said "it is inevitable that we will have a major accident at this point."
didn't trump also dismiss the head of the TSA. not a proximal cause to an accident several days later, but still. additional levels of bureaucratic carnage can't help.
- SuperJail Warden
- Gone Forever
- +644|3998
If I understand Trump and conservatives the reason why this took place is because of DEI in hiring. There weren't any competent air traffic controllers because the Biden and Obama administration wouldn't hire the "most qualified candidates." 😉
- SuperJail Warden
- Gone Forever
- +644|3998
The most blatantly racist administration since Woodrow Wilson.President Trump blamed diversity requirements at the Federal Aviation Administration and his two Democratic predecessors for the midair collision over the Potomac River on Wednesday night, saying that standards for air traffic controllers had been too lax.
Mr. Trump cited no evidence, and even admitted when pressed that the investigation had only just begun.
Moments later, he blamed the pilots of the Army helicopter that appeared to fly into a passenger jet that was on final approach to Reagan National Airport, across the river from the capital.
Mr. Trump went back and forth between blaming diversity goals that he said were created by President Barack Obama and President Joseph R. Biden Jr., and then saying that an investigation was necessary.
And fuck Jon Stewart who said "we dodged a catastrophe" when some white kid almost painted the stage with Trump's brains.
anyone have a techbro civil war on their bingo card for 2025?
Facebook flags Linux topics as 'cybersecurity threats' — posts and users being blocked
https://www.tomshardware.com/software/l … ng-blocked
wtf is this onion reality.
Facebook flags Linux topics as 'cybersecurity threats' — posts and users being blocked
https://www.tomshardware.com/software/l … ng-blocked
wtf is this onion reality.
Facebook is banning posts that mention various Linux-related topics, sites, or groups. Some users may also see their accounts locked or limited when posting Linux topics. Major open-source operating system news, reviews, and discussion site DistroWatch is at the center of the controversy, as it seems to be the first to have noticed that Facebook's Community Standards had blackballed it.
A post on the site claims, "Facebook's internal policy makers decided that Linux is malware and labeled groups associated with Linux as being 'cybersecurity threats.' We tried to post some blurb about distrowatch.com on Facebook and can confirm that it was barred with a message citing Community Standards.
DistroWatch says that the Facebook ban took effect on January 19. Readers have reported difficulty posting links to the site on this social media platform. Moreover, some have told DistroWatch that their Facebook accounts have been locked or limited after sharing posts mentioning Linux topics.
If you're wondering if there might be something specific to DistroWatch.com, something on the site that the owners/operators perhaps don't even know about, for example, then it seems pretty safe to rule out such a possibility. Reports show that "multiple groups associated with Linux and Linux discussions have either been shut down or had many of their posts removed." However, we tested a few other Facebook posts with mentions of Linux, and they didn't get blocked immediately.
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